Aukiliary screen for windshields



s, H. WINCHESTER.

AUXILIARY SCREEN FOR WINDSHIELDS.

' APPLICATlONFlLED lULYZ l, 1920.

Patentfli Min. 21, 1922.

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'oy :1 preferably oblong frame 14. 2110 may he formed of sheet metal or suitable eteriel and the side and are channel shaped in within the frame is a winspnrent screen inem- This roe-nil or may he formed oi on, glass or other approved material, manner to filter the light pass Fixed to the upper side the frame near the ends thereoi ites 16 having alined hinge lugs connerted to said plates are iension hooks 17 having hinge lugs matg with the hinge lugs of said plates. Fitting ri'mg'h the lugs are pivot pins 15% pivotally connecting the hooks with said plates and, as will he observed, the pivot pins zrre, at their 'uter ends, formed with milled heads while, :it their inner ends said pins curry nuts 19. pending ends of the pivot lu s i e suspension hooks 17 are former snit- :ihle teeth while the confronting ends of the 1 1 1;} pivot lugs of the hinge plates are provided typ t any with simil: r teeth and surrounding the pivot h}; pins 18 er. springs 20 hearing against the hooks and acting to 1 ress the teeth of the fl il appear iugs thereof into engagement Will! the teeth of the lugs of the hinge plates.

The suspension hooks 17 are formed of suitable resilient sheet metal and, as particularly shown in Figure 3 of the drawing, are shaped to snugly fit the upper side meniher of the frame oi the upper section 12 ot' 6 r the wind shield engaging thereover and d clamping said frame member. The suspension hooks Will thus effectually support he screen upon the Wind shi1ld and as pericularly orought out in Figure 1, the screen 11; wind shields jects to which 1r nary Wind 15 I uproar further oh- Wind 5 a ihe screen in front oi: the driver of the vehicie, iying against the upper section of tile wind shield, the driver may look through the screen 15 so that said member vviil serve now more particularly to the drew -gs, have shown in improved (igvicg to protect the eyeso'fthe driver from the glare in connection with the rind shield of a motor oi the sun and, at night, w ll serve to neutralvehicle 10 o COXLEVQ-ntigngl desi n Ri ing 12s the glare of the headlights of an oncoming above the eoxv' of the vehicle are the usual Vehicle.

posts or hreri i these posts usual, is con and a lo; :esis. 11'

A However, when it is desired not i Supported b twe n to use the screen, it may be simply shifted wind shieid ivnioh, as is laterally along the upper section of the wind an upper section 112 shield to 3 position ont of the Way of the 13 pivoted upon the driver. "When the screen is thus employed as a light screen may he errenged eithe upon the inside or the outside of the wind shield. However, by arranging the device at the outer side of the wind shield, it may also be employed as a rain guard therefor. \Vhen so used, the device is, as suggested in dotted lines in Figure 3, swung outwardly and upwardly upon the pivot pins 18 to extend at an angle to the wind shield so that the device will prevent the rain from striking against the upper section of the wind shield and accordingly hampering the vision of the driver theretln'ough. As will be seen, when the suspension hooks l7 are engaged with the upper side member of the frame of the upper section of the wind shieldand accordingly held fixed. the springs 20 will cause the teeth of the hinge logs of said hooks to coact with the teeth of the hinge lugs ot' the plates 16 for yieldably locking the screen in adjusted position. I accordingly provide a particularly effective device for the purpose set forth and a device which, as will now be appreciated, may readily be employed upon substantially any conventional design of motor vehicle wind shield.

Having thus described the invention, What is claimed as new is:

An auxiliary screen for Wind shields including a frame, ascreen member carried thereby, hinge plates fixed to the frame and each having spaced alined hinge loops, resilient arcuate suspension hooks for the frame each having spaced alined hinge loops, the loops of each of said hooks mating with the loops of one of said plates respectively, pivot pins extending freely through said loops pivotally connecting the hooks with the frame whereby the frame may be adjnstablyswung with respect to the loops, the loops of the plates and the loopsof the hooks beinp formed at their confronting ends with coat-ting teeth, springs snrrounding the pivot pins and bearing against the hooks for yieldably locking the frame in adjusted position relative to the hooks, and adjustable means carried by the pins whereby the tension of said springs may be varied.

In testimony whereof I atiix my signature,

SIDNEY H. WINCHESTER. [n 5.] 

